Lina Newbride on Grammarly Answershttp://www.grammarly.com/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride2015-03-31T13:06:05ZHow do you use WHOM?http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42373-how-do-you-use-whom/
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Ok, so I asked a question about whom before because I thought it was just super old English and someone said that it is still used.&nbsp; So I need to know when to use who and when to use whom because if I use it, I want to use it right.&nbsp; Oh, by the way this is for written sentences, not for speaking.&nbsp; There is no way that I am going to say whom around my friends, they would laugh me off the planet.&nbsp; But, I do want to use it in a book that I want to publish so I can sound professional.</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42373-how-do-you-use-whom/">Aug 28 &#39;13 at 03:08</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>
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Who and whom are both pronouns and basically mean the same thing. Unfortunatly, most English speakers don&#39;t know that difference. I had to go out of my way to find a website that explained it to me. As confusing as it was, I found a trick to use for it...</p>
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Both words are used to ask questions, generally. (Who is she? Who stepped on me? etc.) When you&#39;re not sure with one to use, ask the question to yourself and answer it. If the answer has &#39;he&#39; or &#39;she&#39; in it, you use who. If it has &#39;him&#39; or &#39;her&#39; in it, you use whom.</p>
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a: Who stepped on me?</p>
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b: He stepped on me.</p>
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I used &#39;he&#39; in the answer, meaning the word &#39;who&#39; would be used.</p>
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a: Who did I see?</p>
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b: I saw him.</p>
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I used &#39;him&#39; this time, so the correct question would be: &#39;Whom did I see?&#39;</p>
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It&#39;s easier to remember than it sounds at first. &#39;Him&#39; and &#39;Whom&#39; both have an &#39;m&#39; at the end, so they go together, leaving &#39;Who&#39; with &#39;He&#39;.</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42373-how-do-you-use-whom/#answer_29701">Aug 31 &#39;13 at 15:50</a> by <a href="/answers/users/228811/michaela" class="profile">Michaela</a>, New member</small></p>
Whats wrong with Farther?http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42421-whats-wrong-with-farther/
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I had a friend who is in the university look at what I have so far of my autobiography.&nbsp; He circled a bunch of stuff but he didn&rsquo;t tell me what was wrong with it, so I am going to put my sentences here, but I am going to separate them so I don&rsquo;t get confused.&nbsp; Ok, so this is the first one:&nbsp; &ldquo;My mom went to the tenth grade in school, but then she got pregnant so she couldn&rsquo;t go any farther.&rdquo;&nbsp; In that sentence, he circled the word farther.&nbsp; I know it is not spelled wrong, so I am not sure why he circled it?&nbsp; I am trying to say that she didn&rsquo;t continue on with school, she dropped out.&nbsp; What do you think?</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42421-whats-wrong-with-farther/">Aug 28 &#39;13 at 23:33</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>
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&#39;Farther&#39; is used in reference to distance. &#39;Further&#39; is used in reference to time or progress, such as in school, that is not distance.</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42421-whats-wrong-with-farther/#answer_29595">Aug 29 &#39;13 at 01:02</a> by <a href="/answers/users/132282/lewis-neidhardt" class="profile">Lewis Neidhardt</a>, Grammarly Fellow</small></p>
Suppose tohttp://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42423-suppose-to/
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This is the second thing that my friend who is in the university found wrong in my autobiography.&nbsp; (He circled my mistakes but not what was wrong with them so I am putting them here for help thanks).&nbsp; So anyway, he circled the words &lsquo;&rdquo;suppose to&rdquo; in this sentence:&nbsp; How am I suppose to know what to do when nobody ever gave me any instructions or training?&nbsp; Just fyi- I am talking about a job that I got hired for and I started not knowing what was going on or what I was suppose to be doing!&nbsp; Suppose is spelled right, I checked.</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42423-suppose-to/">Aug 28 &#39;13 at 23:35</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>
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I <em>suppose </em>that someone thought you were <em>supposed </em>to already know how to do the job.&nbsp; The first instance in my sentence is a verb.&nbsp; The second instance is an adjective.&nbsp; Here are more examples.</p>
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I <em>require</em> assistance.&nbsp; (verb)</p>
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I am <em>required </em>to follow the rules. (adjective)</p>
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I <em>suppose</em> I will turn on the proofing tools in Word.&nbsp; (verb)</p>
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That is<em> supposed </em>to find grammar and style errors for me. (adjective)</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42423-suppose-to/#answer_29605">Aug 29 &#39;13 at 10:58</a> by <a href="/answers/users/24140/patty-t" class="profile">Patty T</a>, Grammarly Fellow</small></p>
It + (whatever) shortened It'shttp://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42437-it-whatever-shortened-its/
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****If you say something like, Its/It&rsquo;s a small world (when you are talking with someone and you found out that they knew somebody that you know).&nbsp; You can use It&#39;s = It is a small world.&nbsp; But can you also use it to shorten It has or it was or anything else that if you take the other letters off it would be It&#39;s?&nbsp; If not, why not? And when does it have to go by itself?</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42437-it-whatever-shortened-its/">Aug 29 &#39;13 at 01:01</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>
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It can be used with &#39;has&#39; in some cases. It has been a hard day. It&#39;s been a hard day.</p>
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There are also time when you would not make a contraction with &#39;has&#39;. It [a car, for instance] has a bad water pump. If you used it&#39;s here, it would mean &#39;It is a bad water pump&#39;. &#39;It&#39; in this sentence would have &#39;the problem with the car&#39; as an antecedent, rather that just &#39;car&#39;.</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42437-it-whatever-shortened-its/#answer_29599">Aug 29 &#39;13 at 02:06</a> by <a href="/answers/users/132282/lewis-neidhardt" class="profile">Lewis Neidhardt</a>, Grammarly Fellow</small></p>
Their /Therehttp://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42489-their-there/
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This has got to be one of the hardest questions ever! Usually when I want to know if something is right or not, I just say it in my head.&nbsp; If it sounds right, then I figure its probably right. So there and their is hard because they both sound exactly the same.&nbsp; I really need to know which is which because they are real common, I use them all the time.&nbsp; I usually kind of put whichever and hope for the best, but I am writing a book and I need the grammar to be good.&nbsp; Can anybody out there/their help?</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42489-their-there/">Aug 30 &#39;13 at 00:10</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>
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&#39;Their&#39; will always be a possessive. It&#39;s usually followed closely by a noun.</p>
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Their trip</p>
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Their car</p>
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If you want to indicate a location, use &#39;there&#39;.</p>
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There it is</p>
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Did you put it there?</p>
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Is there a time when we can meet. (location in time)</p>
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Then there is &#39;they&#39;re&#39;</p>
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This is a contraction meaning &#39;they are&#39;</p>
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They&#39;re coming this afternoon.</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42489-their-there/#answer_29633">Aug 30 &#39;13 at 01:10</a> by <a href="/answers/users/132282/lewis-neidhardt" class="profile">Lewis Neidhardt</a>, Grammarly Fellow</small></p>
All right and Alright... Part 2http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42491-all-right-and-alright-part-2/
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This is my second question with Alright and All right.&nbsp; Like a follow-up question.&nbsp; So alright is a word, my boyfriend was happy about winning that argument by the way.&nbsp; But I am not ready to give in..&nbsp; What if you say, I took a test and I got the answers all right.&nbsp; I got the answers alright sounds like a brag statement instead of just saying that you didn&rsquo;t miss any (say it out loud: I got the answers Alright!!) So all right CAN be separated to two words or one word and it means something different together, right?&nbsp; Hope I am right!</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42491-all-right-and-alright-part-2/">Aug 30 &#39;13 at 00:13</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>
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I don&#39;t need to weigh in here with these two experts lining it out, but I did want to make note that &quot;Alright!&quot; as you used it was an interjection and that &quot;all right&quot; sounds more like an affirmation than an exclamation showing emotion.</p>
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I would also note that a dictionary site</p>
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grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/interjections/list-of-interjections.html</p>
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actually lists &quot;alright&quot;, &quot;alrighty&quot;, and &quot;alrighty-roo&quot; under a rather extensive list of interjections, and that &quot;all right&quot; is completely omitted from this list.</p>
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That being the case, my assumption, without ANY grammatical basis other than my own (excellent) intuition, is to use &quot;alright!&quot; as an interjection.</p>
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(By the way, this agrees with previous poster in regards to formal writing since it is unlikely interjections would be used in formal writing.)</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42491-all-right-and-alright-part-2/#answer_29755">Sep 02 &#39;13 at 00:49</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226407/aaron-prejean" class="profile">Aaron Prejean</a>, Expert</small></p>
<p>Here is what Oxford Dictionaries has to say about this question:<br />.</p>
<p>There is no logical reason for insisting that all right should be written as two words rather than as alright, when other single-word forms such as altogether have long been accepted. Nevertheless, alright is still regarded as being unacceptable in formal writing.</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42491-all-right-and-alright-part-2/#answer_29643">Aug 30 &#39;13 at 11:45</a> by <a href="/answers/users/24140/patty-t" class="profile">Patty T</a>, Grammarly Fellow</small></p>
What about a and an?http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42567-what-about-a-and-an/
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Hey, I was talking with one of my friends&nbsp; who speaks Spanish and is learning English.&nbsp; She was telling me that in Spanish they have feminine and masculine nouns.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t remember which ones she said, so sorry if these are backwards but lets say for example that a book is masculine and a pencil is feminine.&nbsp; So they put un for the masculine and unA for the feminine.&nbsp; And I was like, we don&rsquo;t have that in English.&nbsp;&nbsp; But later, I was thinking about A versus AN like a book. ... Sorry, I can&rsquo;t think of another example for an right now, but sometimes we use that.&nbsp; I KNOW it is not masculine or feminine, but why do we change them?&nbsp; When should we use an?</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42567-what-about-a-and-an/">Sep 01 &#39;13 at 03:10</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>
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<p>Actually, many languages have feminine and masculine nouns. But Eniglish does not. "A" or "An" has nothing to do with that. They are articles, not nouns. The way to determine which to use is the beginning sound of the word following. If the word sounds like it begins with a vowel, such as "egg" or "hour", you use "an". If it sounds like it starts with a consonant, such as "table" or "unicorn", then use "a". </p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42567-what-about-a-and-an/#answer_29717">Sep 01 &#39;13 at 03:33</a> by <a href="/answers/users/24140/patty-t" class="profile">Patty T</a>, Grammarly Fellow</small></p>
Talk to someone or Talk with someonehttp://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42575-talk-to-someone-or-talk-with-someone/
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The other day I called my friend.&nbsp; Someone had his cell phone, so they answered the phone instead of him.&nbsp; They asked me who do I want to talk &ldquo;with&rdquo; and I answered &ldquo;with Paul&rdquo;.&nbsp; But it was a little weird to me because I would have said who do you want to talk &ldquo;to&rdquo; and normally I would have said &ldquo;to Paul, please,&rdquo; or just &ldquo;Paul&rdquo;.&nbsp; So I was just wondering if they are both okay to say, or one is wrong.&nbsp;</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42575-talk-to-someone-or-talk-with-someone/">Sep 01 &#39;13 at 04:33</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>
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<p>I think using talk to someone is better choice</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42575-talk-to-someone-or-talk-with-someone/#answer_29727">Sep 01 &#39;13 at 14:01</a> by <a href="/answers/users/229023/sarah-arain" class="profile">sarah arain</a>, New member</small></p>
Toward and Towards are the same thinghttp://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42587-toward-and-towards-are-the-same-thing/
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How come sometimes you see toward (no s) and sometimes you see towards (with s)?&nbsp; I am reading a magazine and it had this sentence: &ldquo;The human tendency toward pride may motivate us to seek prominence.&rdquo; I always thought that the word was towards (with S).&nbsp; In the dictionary, it had both ones, like this: toward, towards (preposition) &hellip;. Then underneath the definitions.&nbsp; So does that mean you can spell it either way?</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42587-toward-and-towards-are-the-same-thing/">Sep 01 &#39;13 at 17:03</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>
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Yes, you can spell it both ways.&nbsp; Lina, you could get immediate answers to most of these questions using the search field at the top of the page.&nbsp; Most of the questions you ask are very common questions and have been asked and answered many times here.&nbsp; For instance, type <em>toward towards </em>in there right now and hit enter.&nbsp; You&#39;ll get a page full of questions and answers.&nbsp; </p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42587-toward-and-towards-are-the-same-thing/#answer_29731">Sep 01 &#39;13 at 17:59</a> by <a href="/answers/users/24140/patty-t" class="profile">Patty T</a>, Grammarly Fellow</small></p>
Cuisine capitalizationhttp://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/51085-cuisine-capitalization/
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Do you capitalize Continental cuisine as you would Italian cuisine?</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/51085-cuisine-capitalization/">Jul 22 &#39;14 at 02:08</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>